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Josh Lewsey is a unique man. He has won the rugby world cup, graduated from Sandhurst, serving as an officer in the Royal Artillery and took on the challenge to climb Everest.
This is man with drive, focus who understands how to achieve success. University educated Josh has a rare insight into a combination of elite performance environments. Not only does he know about winning and losing from his immensely successful period as a professional rugby player, but he has the knowledge from the military and climbing that if you don’t work as a team, don’t prepare, don’t listen, don’t adapt to changes going on around you, death is a reality.
Born in Kent, Josh went to school in Watford close to Saracens rugby club, but it was London Wasps where he was to make his name after player junior rugby at Amersham & Chiltern RFC. He joined Wasps aged 18 playing in the colts before going on to captain the Under 18 side.
Whilst a University in Bristol, he played Bristol RFC before re-joining Wasps at 21, the club that come the end of his career he played for 262 times in 11 years. He departed at the end of the 2008/09 season having helped the club to four Premiership titles, two Heineken Cups and a European Challenge Cup success.
Although he could have played for Wales as his mum his Welsh and his dad half Welsh, it was in an England shirt that Josh dazzled on the international stage. He was first capped at the age of 21 on England’s ‘Tour from Hell’ in Australia 1998. He also appeared in all three tests in the summer 2001 tour to North America.
After deciding on going through the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, he graduated in 2001 and combined his rugby and Army careers with great success, before throwing himself 100% into his rugby.
In 2003 he has a key player in England’s world cup campaign that saw Clive Woodard’s team hoist the trophy. Still in great form in 2005, Josh toured with the legendary British & Irish Lions to New Zealand scoring two tries in 5 minutes against the Bay of Plenty.
Josh featured heavily in England’s campaign to retain the Rugby World Cup in 2007, scoring the only try against France in the 14-9 victory which put England into the final. In 2008 Josh retired from international rugby.
An avid climber, Josh took on the challenge to climb Mount Everest via the difficult North Col route in May 2010. He got to within 500 feet of the summit when his breathing apparatus failed meaning he had to abandon the ascent.
Josh currently works for a financial institution in the City. His speaking topics include:
- Peak Performance
- Preparation & Execution
- Intelligence under Pressure
- Building a High Performance Team
- Comparing Organisation effectiveness (Military & Sport)
